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I was just thinking about it all, and I thought that it might make things more understandable if you knew the main rumor going around. I'm hoping that if you're from my school and you read this, maybe you can realize that we are not bad like you think and you can help us stop some of these rumors. Just by saying, "hey, that's not true".
The biggest rumor going around about my group is that we worship Hitler. Why? The Hitler Youth wore brown shirts. Our colors are brown and orange, and so we will wear brown shirts. This is why we're having such a hard time getting credibility on campus. We first just laughed it off but it's getting very serious. We really can't just have a social with a sorority or fraternity because of this. It's not just that they don't like us because we don't want to join one of their sororities (I know a few women that are pledging now or are already in some of the sororities and I really like them, they're good people) and want our own, but because of that. Telling everyone that we do not want to be affiliated whatsoever with Hitler doesn't seem to be working. We picked our colors for a good reason so we don't want to change them unless absolutely necessary (such as some administration telling us that we have to). We want them to be synonymous (sorry if I spelled that wrong) with community service and strong academics. But we can't do that when everybody thinks we want to be like Hitler. Is there anything that anybody can suggest that will maybe help put a stop to the rumors? Something we can do, something that can be said, whatever. Because I'm thinking (hoping) that if we can end the stories, it will help us gain credibility and allow people to be more open-minded and if we're lucky, accepting.
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